Cross-Cultural Perspectives on East Asian Cinemas: an International Symposium

Programme

Venue: Multi-media Conference Room (MMR), Cheng Yick-chi Building, City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR

3 July 2008 (Thursday)

9:00am - 9:15am	Registration
9:15am - 9:45am	Welcoming Speech Professor Paul Kwan-sing Lam Acting Vice-President (Undergraduate Education) City University of Hong Kong Professor Jonathan Webster Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics City University of Hong Kong Professor Zhang Longxi Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics City University of Hong Kong
9:45am - 10:45am	Keynote Speech Professor Zhang Yingjin (University of California, San Diego) Chinese Cinema and Transnational Film Studies
10:45am - 11:00am	Tea Break
11:00pm - 12:45pm	Panel 1: Genre, Aesthetics, and Cross-cultural Negotiations Chair: Zhang Longxi (City University of Hong Kong) Gina Marchetti (The University of Hong Kong) Bicycle Thieves and Pickpockets: Transnational Chinese Cinema, Postmodernism, and the Transcendental Style Kien Ket Lim (National Chiao Tung University) Becoming Noir Tsung-yi Michelle Huang (National Taiwan University) Beyond the Governance of Global City-Regions: Discourses and Representations of Hong Kong's Cross-border Identities
12:45am - 2:15pm	Lunch
2:15pm - 4:00pm	Panel 2: New Images in Asian Cinemas Chair: Jeroen de Kloet (University of Amsterdam) Helen Hok-Sze Leung (Simon Fraser University) Local Sex on Global Screen: The Politics and Poetics of the New Queer Asian Cinema Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Neoconservatism and Japanese Cinema Paris Chi-Chuen Lau (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Performance in an Exotic Space: Perhaps Love and The Drummer
4:00pm - 4:15pm	Tea Break
4:15pm - 6:00pm	Panel 3: Pan-Asian Co-productions and Collaborations Chair: Sun Young Oh (City University of Hong Kong) Stephanie DeBoer (Indiana University) Collaborating over Digital Futures: Pan Asia and Fractured Convergence Ti Wei (National Chiao Tung University) Contending with Hollywood Together? - The Practices and Consequences of East Asian Film Co-productions Vivian Lee (City University of Hong Kong) Pan-Asia and/or Trans-Nation: the Trajectory of Applause Pictures

4 July 2008 (Friday)

9:00am - 10:45am	Panel 4: History, Gender, and Cinematic Representations Chair: Matthew Wing Kwong Leung (City University of Hong Kong) Daisy S. Y. Ng (Monterey Institute of International Studies) Mistresses and Master Narratives: the De-centering Discourse of Centre Stage and Lust, Caution Kenny K. K. Ng (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Remaking Chinese Cinema: A Trans-historical View S. Louisa Wei (City University of Hong Kong) Japanese and Korean Women Directors in the Era of Independent Production
10:45am - 11:00am	Tea Break
11:00am - 12:45pm	Panel 5: New Directions in Asian Cinemas Chair: Bonnie S. McDougall (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Stephen Teo, (National University of Singapore) The Malaysian New Wave from the Female Point of View Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham) Feature Film as Short Film: Notes on the Ontology of East Asian Cinema Nikki J. Y. Lee (Yonsei University) Short Film as Feature Film: Three (2002), and Three, Extremes (2004)
12:45pm - 2:30pm	Lunch
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Seminar : "Filmmakers on Filmmaking" Ning Jingwu (Independent Film Director, Mainland China) Michelle Yeh (Principal/Producer, Three Dots Entertainment Co. Ltd., Taiwan) Chan Ka Seung Gordon (Film Director/Producer, Hong Kong) Cheung Tung Joe (Film Director/Producer, Hong Kong)
4:00pm - 4:15pm	Tea Break
4:15pm - 7:00pm	*Special Screening: LaLa's Gun* by Ning Jingwu** Lecture Theatre 401, Level 4, Amenities Building, City University of Hong Kong
7:00pm	Symposium Dinner - All Participants (R.S.V.P.)